Species Anisakis pegreffii Campana-Rouget & Biocca, 1955

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• Anisakis pegreffii Campana-Rouget, Y. & Biocca, E. 1955. Une nouvelle espéce d'Anisakis chez un phoque mediterranéen. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 30: 477-480.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Details not provided (Article states "Types: déposés à l’Institut de Parasitologie de Paris."), eastern coast of Sardinia, near Dorgali.

  Type host:

   Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779) [PHOCIDAE] Mediterranean monk seal (Was reported as Monachus albiventer)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

From southeastern Australian waters, identified from genetic markers. See Mattiucci et al. (2014).

Victoria, Australia: Blairgowrie and Apollo Bay. See Shamsi et al. (2012).

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Scomber australasicus Cuvier, 1832 [SCOMBRIDAE] Blue mackerel (Identified as a host through genetic sequencing); Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [DELPHINIDAE] Bottlenose Dolphin (definitive host); Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846) [DELPHINIDAE] False Killer Whale (definitive host); Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHELONIIDAE] Loggerhead Turtle; Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) [DELPHINIDAE] Long-finned Pilot Whale (definitive host)).

Associated Fauna References

Hossen, M.S., Suthar, J., Wassens, S. & Shamsi, S. 2023. Occurrence and molecular identification of nematodes from blue mackerel Scomber australasicus Cuvier in Australian waters. Parasitology International 92(102664): 1–12 (Scomber australasicus)

Mašová, S., baruš, V., Seifertová, M., Malala, J. & Jirků, M. 2014. Redescription and molecular characterisation of Dujardinascaris madagascariensis and a note on D. dujardini (Nematoda: Heterocheilidae), parasites of Crocodylus niloticus, with a key to Dujardinascaris spp. in crocodilians. Zootaxa 3893(3): 261–276 (Caretta caretta)

 

General References

Mattiucci, S., Cipriani, P., Webb, S.C., Paoletti, M., Marcer, F., Bellisario, B., Gibson, D.I. & Nascetti, G. 2014. Genetic and morphological approaches distinguish the three sibling species of the Anisakis simplex species complex, with a species designation as Anisakis berlandi n. sp. for A. simplex sp. C (Nematoda: Anisakidae). Journal of Parasitology 100(2): 199–214

Shamsi, S. 2014. Recent advances in our knowledge of Australian anisakid nematodes. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 3: 178-187

Shamsi, S., Gasser, R. & Beveridge, I. 2012. Genetic characterization and taxonomy of species of Anisakis (Nematoda: Anisakidae) parasitic in Australian marine mammals. Invertebrate Systematics 26: 204–212

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	SPIRURIDA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	SPIRURIDA	18-Apr-2023	MODIFIED
22-Mar-2022	CHROMADOREA Inglis, 1983	20-May-2023	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
28-Aug-2014	ANISAKIDAE Railliet & Henry, 1912 (Skryabin & Karokhin, 1945)	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
		17-Jun-2014	ADDED